OLYMPIC swimmer Stacey Bromley said she was devastated after her engagement ring was stolen the night before her wedding at the Limpley Stoke Hotel.

Police were called to the hotel in the village at 9.55pm on May 21 after it was reported that her engagement ring – along with other jewellery estimated to be worth £1,200 – had been stolen from her hotel room.

Mrs Bromley, nee Tadd, who represented Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics, said the incident has left her deeply saddened. She believes the hotel could have done more to protect the jewellery, which has huge sentimental value.

“There is a lot more that could have been done to improve their security and if they have had more thefts there, then why haven’t they done something about it?” she said.

“This is all very stressful and is not how I expected to start married life. To think they cater for weddings, you would think their hotel security would be outstanding and their communication would be of a high standard.”

It is believed that the jewellery was stolen from her room between 8.30pm-9.45pm. Mrs Bromley believes providing safety deposit boxes in the rooms could have prevented the theft.

“I would have thought that knowing I was a bride and it was highly likely that I would have jewellery on me, they could have at least said that they have a hotel safe should I wish to put anything in there,” Mrs Bromley said.

Mark Thompson, group hotel operations manager for the Latona Leisure Group which owns the hotel, said it hosts around 90 weddings a year and in the last 25 years, there had only been four thefts from the hotel.

He added: “We take the safety and security of our guests and the hotel extremely seriously. Our guest room information packs strongly encourage all guests with valuables to deposit them for safekeeping in the hotel’s main safe.”

Mr Thompson said the hotel also has CCTV installed, which Wiltshire Police was using in their enquiries.

“Every guest room door lock is checked on a regular basis. I can say categorically that the guest room door lock in question was not faulty in any way,” he added. “This unfortunate incident was purely an opportunist taking advantage of a situation beyond the control of the hotel or staff at that time.”

Wiltshire Police are asking anyone with information to call 101.